Guest
Lara Boyd
Dr. Lara Boyd is a neuroscientist and former physical therapist whose research focuses on learning, brain injury, stroke, and neuroplasticity.
Circuit updated October 15, 2026
Notable quotes
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“you want to live here. You want to live where something is hard, where you're sometimes failing, but often you're succeeding and you're struggling with that activity. And that's where actually we can map and show this is where you're changing brain.”
Lara Boyd · The Mel Robbins Podcast -
“your brain is shaped by the experiences around you. And it's up to you to choose wisely what those experiences are.”
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“success rate is right around 50 60%. So it's hard. This is when we're seeing the most neuroplastic change”
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“certainly we are very clear that if you don't sleep, you don't learn.”
Lara Boyd · The Mel Robbins Podcast
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